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PAGE TWO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1964
Published every Thursday at Humble, Texas, by the Humble Publishing
Co, Entered as second class matter July 18, 1942, at the U„S. Post Office
in Humble, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1870.
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Freedom Is Not
Without Duty
In a Thanksgiving message, Director
J; Edgar Hoover of the FBI paid a mov-
ing tribute to the Pilgrims and the ideals
they left to us. Then he said: “Re-
grettably, too many Americans no longer
care about religious ideals and heritage.
To some, our country is a fantasyland
filled with complimentary handouts oi
rights and freedoms without obligations.
With patent indifference, they shirk the
mere suggestion of individual respon-
sibility. Their purpose in life is lost in
moral lethargy, self-indulgence, and
neglect of duty."
A cynical, unthinking attitude such as
Mr. Hoover describes can, if ever it
becomes widespread enough, prove sui-
cidal for this or any nation. All our
material abundance could not then save
us from ultimate destruction as a free
people. Those who forsake duty ask for
masters who will impose duty—the duty
of slaves. The faith of the Pilgrims was
never so greatly needed as it is today.
Medicare Would
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Mean Paying Twice
Proponents of the Medicare plan for
providing certain medical benefits to
people drawing social security payments
intimate, if they don't actually state,
that next to nothing is being done to meet
the medical problems of the needy
John Pundt, EDITOR
elderly.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Sometime ago, the federal Kerr-Mills
law came into being. It is a joint federal
state project, which puts the adminis-
trative responsibility where it belongs—
at the local instead of the national level.
It offers health care to all elderly people
who are actually in need. And it is a com-
plete program, encompassing hospital,
musing home, medical, dental, surgical
and drug care. In this all-important
respect, it offers much more than Medi-
care.
The taxpayers are meeting the bill for
all this. If Medicare also became law—
and the strongest kind of pressure will be
put behind it when Congress next con-
venes—we’ll be paying twice, unneces-
sarily. And the Medicare billwouldbeno
small one. It would increase the social
security tax, borne by employers and
employees, to 10.4 per cent of the first
$ 5600 of annual income by 1971. That
works out to $582.40 for each covered’
worker. Many think that even this
wouldn’t be sufficient to meet the costs,
and that Medicare would imperil and.
undermine the whole social security
system.
We have, in other words, under Kerr-
Mills, a well conceived method of aiding'
the ill and infirm elderly. It can be
further broadened and improved if that is
found necessary. In addition, there are all-
manner of public and private welfare
plans. The medical profession itself is
pledged to provide care for all in need,
regardless of the ability to pay. The'
case against Medicare is overwhelmingly
strong.
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MODERN EDUCATION
By Tom Anderson
The wife of a losing football coach wrote
a. friend: “Each Saturday as I walk to the
stadium, I feel as if my stomach were filled
with sharp stones. I’m sure that everyone in
my vicinity can hear my heart beat. As we
stand to sing ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’ I
ask God not to let them boo my husband or
the team. I ask Him to let the fans under-
stand that these are boys playing — they
don’t want to make mistakes. They don’t
want to fumble.
“I’ve asked this same God to help me ex-
• plain to my daughter a television panel show
that rips her father apart. I’ve asked Him to
teach us how to keep our own sons from be-
ing small and petty and vicious . . . there are
so many evidences that show how hard the
boys have worked on the practice and play-
ing field. I know that my husband has given
his very best toward their development. We
just can’t believe that everything has to be
measured by the scoreboard . . .”
But a big-time college football coach has
declared: “Winning is not the most import-
ant thing — it’s the only thing.*’ A certain
winning basketball coach,'whose players have
■been found guilty of “shaving points” for
gamblers’ payoffs, derisively refers to losing
coaches as “character builders.” And many
coaches will cheat, and teach the youth
they’re molding to cheat, in any way possible
to win.
In big-time college football cheating in re-
cruiting, in classrooms, in remuneration and
on the playing field is customary. “Win at all
costs,” the alumni demand. (Most of them
take football more seriously than their free-
dom.) Coaches caught in rules violations are
never fired — if they win. Many of the self-
styled molders of youthful character have no
character. The contract of a football coach
with a college is a one-way street. If he gets
a better offer, he walks out. If he gets fired,
the college has to buy up his contract. The
trouble with America is erosion of morality.
Freedom and morality are indivisible.
Our country today needs nationalism, pa-
triotism, morality, courage, dedication and
religion as never before. And these eternal
verities — these necessities if we are to sur-
vive as a free people — should be taught
from kindergarten through college.
This is the best educated generation our
nation has yet produced, say the educators
and statisticians. They don’t say what they’re
educated for. They mean that a higher per-
centage of students now graduate from high
school and college than ever before, which
really means very little. One of the first
things many graduates should do as soon as
possible is to unlearn the untruths they were
taught by mistaken educators. Our “progres-
sive educators” have been stressing “life ad-
justment” instead of the preservation of a
free nation. They have taught security, peace
and brotherhood, but left out duty, honor
and country.
When American U-2 spy Powers faced
enemy trial, he saved his neck by pleading,
“I didn’t know what I was doing and if I
had known it. I wouldn’t have done it . . .
I know now that I was risking world peace
. . . My superiors were responsible.”
A staggering number of American soldiers
—more than any other nation ever had —
sold out their fellow American soldiers and
their country in the Korean War. Not to save
their lives, but to get better treatment in
prison camp, they licked the boots of their
Chinese captors and made tape recordings
praising Communism. And why not? These
spineless creatures were taught in school that
patriotism is old-hat, that capitalism is wic-
ked, that the wave of the future is a one-
world, non-profit, socialist brotherhood.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
400 Main St.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
LAKELAND BAPTIST CHURCH
Isaacks and Old Humble Road
Owen Dry, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 10:50 a.m.
Training Service 7 p.m.
Church 7:50 p.m.
Wednesday night 7:30 p.m.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
621 Herman St.
Herbert Thornton, minister
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 10:50 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.
Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Bible class 9:30 a.m.
METHODIST CHURCH
800 Main St.
Bill Turner, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 7 p.m.
FIRST PENTECOSTAL. CHURCH
119 S. Houston Ave.
Irby E. Slaughter, pastor
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
400 S. Houston Ave.
Father Jerome Powers, O.M.I.
Sunday Mass 8:00 a.m.
FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
410 Granberry St.
G.L. Johnson, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Childrens Church 6 p.m.
Young Peoples Church 6 p.m.
Evangelistic Service 7 p.m.
UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
Porter, Texas »
M.E. Precise, pastor
Sunday School 11 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m.
Bible Study, Wed. 7:30 p.m.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
415 FM 1960
Father Ralph H. Shuffler II
Church 8 a.m.
Church School follows worship service
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HOW FREEDOM WILL BE WON
By Harry Browne
In California, in 1962, protesting parents
elected a new Superintendent of Public In-
struction—a man who had run in opposition
to “progressive” education.
Now, two years later, many of these par-
ents have their children enrolled in profit-
rhaking schools—which are spreading all oyer
Southern California. For only profit-seeking
schools are required to satisfy their customers.
Every day, consumers with packages to
mail turn to United Parcel Service, REA
Express, and other carriers. They know that
the government’s parcel post operation is too
slow and often more expensive. They’re not
interested in reforming the U.S. Post Office
because they know that only a profit-seeking
company will take pains to give them good
service.
What does all this mean? Just this:, more
and more people are recognizing that gov-
ernment, can’t educate, that it can’t carry
the mail, that it can’t operate any business as
well as a profit-seeking company can.
The California parents first tried to “re-
form” the state’s educational system. They
spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and
hours of their time to elect “their man.” But
he was incapable of changing the system.
So the parents then realized it would be
cheaper to pay double—once in school taxes
and again in tuition—and get exactly what
they wanted. They now know it’s worth it.
Each parent selects the school that pro-
vides the exact education he desires. He’s not
required to convince a majority of the voters
to agree with him. He can buy the 3 R’s or
4
“progressive” education, prayers or no pray-
ers, academics or “life adjustment.”
And most of the private schools provide a
curriculum that is several grades ahead of
the government-operated schools. So the par-
ents — many with low incomes — rate their
own children important enough to warrant
the cost.
These parents have realized they can’t re-
form a bad system. Perhaps this is what
prompted over 40 million Americans of vot-
ing age to stay away from the polls this year.
Maybe these non-voters realized that the ma-
jority-vote process is not the proper basis.for
making economic decisions.
When enough Americans realize this, the
government’s economic powers will shrink.
Not because people will vote for one man or
another-—but because they will refuse to
accept any economic favors from the state
and vyill refuse to pay for anyone else’s
favors.
Freedom can only be sold by the example
set by people who act like free people. These
freedom-loving individuals go to the market-
place to solve their problems. They open or
patronize private schools, they launch busi-
nesses in competition with the state wherever
possible, and they refuse to accept any hand-
outs from the government.
They make no attempt to force their views
on others at the polls;, they simply let their
happier, more prosperous lives speak for
themselves.
And many Americans are apparently get-
ting the message.
GREEN VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH
Aldine-Westfield Road
Paul S. Strother, pastor
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
Wed. Prayer Meeting 7:30 p.m.
GREENLEE BAPTIST CHURCH
Bender Road
Rev. James Harrell
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
THE UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH
217 S. Ave. G
J.W. Eddins, pastor
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
ST. MATTHEW’S LUTHERAN CHURCH
Westfield, Texas
E.R. Rathgeber, pastor
Sunday School 9 a.m.
Church 10 a.m.
LAKE VIEW PARK BAPTIST MISSION
4 1/2 mi. west on FM 1960
A.L. Draper, pastor
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
EASTEX OAKS PAPTIST
Plumtex at North Belt Dr.
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Church 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 8 a.m.
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